See quotes on September 18, 1858 and August 22, 1862
Not saying he didn't change, see quotes: April 18, 1864 and other quotes.
I know Lincoln is a national hero, and for good cause. I'm not anti-Lincoln. I painted a big painting of him!
The last quote there is a sentence: "The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present."
So while Lincoln did say (unless my source was bad), "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."
And as we look back, we realize that he was a "liberator" and a hero, but also a product of his "stormy" time steeped in the "dogmas of the quiet past", very much human.
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I blogged on Lincoln a while back:
http://kavetter.blogspot.com/2007/05/lincoln-quotes.html
See quotes on September 18, 1858 and August 22, 1862
Not saying he didn't change, see quotes: April 18, 1864 and other quotes.
I know Lincoln is a national hero, and for good cause. I'm not anti-Lincoln. I painted a big painting of him!
The last quote there is a sentence: "The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present."
So while Lincoln did say (unless my source was bad), "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."
And as we look back, we realize that he was a "liberator" and a hero, but also a product of his "stormy" time steeped in the "dogmas of the quiet past", very much human.
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